Here is one of my favorite Fake Political Moralists, BHL in tandem with Mr. Houellebecq the latest novelist and decadent to appear on the French literary scene. It is the ‘New’ that drives so much of literary culture in the ‘West’ :these are the replacement team for Sartre and Camus, for Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, not to speak of ‘Master Theorist’, Derrida. A certain literary nostalgia takes over from rational argument! Sort of like the unhinged enthusiasm for ‘French Theory’ that has become an obsession with American Literary Dilettantes: a harmless consorting with a voguish irrationalism.
Your truly,
Myra Breckenridge